Saturday July 19, you won’t have to poke around searching for things to do in Los Angeles, because the Santa Monica Pier will Glow dusk-to-dawn with live performances, spectacular sights and video presentations and neat exhibitions at the Glow Festival (www.smgov.net/smarts/glow/). Not to mention food, fun and a heck of a lot of people. And its free. […]

Posted on July 19th, 2008 by Thomas
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The world’s largest Tattoo & Body Art Expo (www.bodyartexpo.com/) is doing the rounds in California, starting from the Fairplex Ponoma (July 18 to 20, 2008), and moving on to the Cow Palace, San Francisco (August 22 to 24), and then to the Los Angeles Convention Center (September 26 to 28) and wrapping up 2008 at the Ventura County […]

Posted on July 18th, 2008 by Thomas
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The Brooklyn Museum got taken with its collection of 30 Coptic sculptures, a third of which have been determined to be fake. So what do they do? Instead of warehousing the sculptures, they’re holding a ‘fake exhibition’, as in they’re inviting the public to see the fakes.
The New York Times reports that by showing the fakes […]

Posted on July 17th, 2008 by Thomas
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I’ve been ‘assigned’ to rant on this blog, so I thought maybe I should start with a proper introduction.
First, who am I? I’m Ling, a hack writer, and I scribble stuff  for Uptake (formerly Kango). I also run another travel blog (Triphow.com) in addition to posting on the Uptake blog. For the record, both ScoutAbout and Triphow are part […]

Posted on July 16th, 2008 by Thomas
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